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Altium Develop

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 2 - Reviews of Altium Develop

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Yusuf K.  
Embedded Systems Engineer  
Design  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A tool everyone should know: Altium 365"

June 20, 2025

5.0

Overall Altium 365 is a great tool, it makes most things easier. I have a good experience using it and for sure it continues this way

Pros

The thing I liked the most from the features of Altium 365 is that its ability to create a web based collaborative design workspace

Cons

The thing is that when the subscription period passed we couldn't have access to our workspace, so we shoud have an active subscription inorder that our data stays there

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HM

Hossein M.  
Electronics Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "What I liked and be disappointed about Altium 365"

June 11, 2025

5.0

Overall Altium 365 is a great web based design collaboration tool and it helped me a lot. But it would be great if the subscription fee is reduced a little or include a version with limited features and lesser price.

Pros

The tool Altium 365 is a great tool with incredible features. Its automatic generation of Bill of Materials (BOM) made my designs time efficient

Cons

The learning curve is somehow difficult and it’s hard to get free resources on it. So it’s hard to get started and be familiar with its features.

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DF

Derese F.  
Electronics Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Altium 365 and great features you should know"

June 1, 2025

5.0

Overall I am grateful using Altium 365 and it helped me a lot throughout my design projects, it made collaboration with friends and automatic generation of Bill of Materials.

Pros

Altium 365 is more than what I've thought, its feature of cloud based collaboration on design projects made my project management efficient.

Cons

The thing I don't like is it hasn't many resources online to learn its full features. So first I wasn't able to use all the features efficiently.

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PO

Pelin O.  
Hardware Design Engineer  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "A tool that every designer should know about"

June 30, 2025

5.0

Overall Altium 365 is a great tool for both academicians and professional users. It makes design procedures more easier and fast

Pros

Altium 365's ability to share designs with team members instantly is what I liked the most about the tool

Cons

There are two things I liked the least about Altium 365. The first one is the subscription cost and the second one is the learning curve to be familiar with the tool

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AA

Ashenafi A.  
Technical Supervisor and Hardware Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium 365: A tool each design team should have"

June 6, 2025

5.0

Overall Altium 365 is a great tool and it helped my organizations design team a lot. We are performing good with Altium 365

Pros

I like the feature of Altium 365 being able to be accessible from any computer whether it has Altium Designer installed or not. It allows me to access my designs anytime through web based interactive interface.

Cons

The thing I liked the least is that its accessibility is dependent on having a valid Altium Designer license, means when the license expires I couldn't access my designs

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DT

Dagim T.  
Electronics Engineer, Technical Trainer  
Design  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Altium 365, Powerful Cloud Platform"

May 24, 2025

5.0

Overall I am happy using Altium 365 and it helped me a lot. Starting from my academic projects I've been using it and now it's been about 2 years since I started using it for my professional projects.

Pros

What I liked the most about Altium 365 is its feature of cloud based collaboration with teams regardless of their location while doing projects.

Cons

One of the things I liked least about Altium 365 is the dependency on a stable internet connection for core functionality, sometimes I find it hard to get a stable internet connection and wish it could be a way to make it offline available.

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GH

Gebregziabher H.  
Electrical and Electronics divisions Head  
Apparel & Fashion  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Designing in the Cloud, Altium 365"

May 24, 2025

5.0

Over Altium 365 is a very helpful tool for professional in the field of electronics design. It makes project collaborations easier, and I love this tool.

Pros

What I liked most about Altium 365 is the ability to collaborate with my team in real time, no matter where they are. The cloud-based platform allows us to review designs, leave comments, and approve changes directly from a browser

Cons

Altium 365 is very powerful, but it's tightly bound to the Altium ecosystem. Collaborators who don’t use Altium Designer are limited in what they can do. While the web viewer is helpful, it doesn’t offer deep interaction or editing tools, which can be restrictive for teams using mixed design environments.

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PM

Petros M.  
Junior Technical Engineer  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "What a tool for designers: Altium 365"

June 25, 2025

5.0

Overall Altium 365 is a great tool with greate features, starting from my academics projects till now for my professional projects, I found Altium 365 really helpful

Pros

What I liked the most about Altium 365 is its feature of cloud based automatic Bill of Materials (BOM) generation, which saves much time.

Cons

What I liked the least about Altium 365 is the learning curve, which is a little difficult for beginner designers

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RF

Rustam F.  
Hardware Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "A greate design collaboration tool: Altium 365"

June 21, 2025

5.0

Overall Altium 365 is a great tool with greate features. From web based cloud design environment to automatic BOM generation it made my design procedures easier

Pros

The thing I liked the most about this tool, Altium 365, is that it has a feature of collaborative design which is cloud based and easy to access anywhere

Cons

The subscription fee and the learning curve are the things I liked the least about Altium 365. It should have alternatives with lower subscription fee

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AT

Andrew T.  
Staff Design Engineer  
Medical Devices  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Altium Designer - ATaggart Review"

December 11, 2024

5.0

Pros

Ease of design process Project management

Cons

Takes a long time to load the program from startup

Alternatives considered

[Eagle](https://www.capterra.com/p/184384/Eagle/)

Reason for choosing Altium Develop

I had more experience with altium, so was easier to setup

Switched from

[OrCAD X](https://www.capterra.com/p/10015795/OrCAD-X/)

Needed to update to a much newer system than before

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NA

Nick A.  
Founder  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "The standard for PCB CAD software"

December 17, 2024

5.0

Overall phenomenal tool! As a small tech startup we don't have the resources and man power that a large company may have, yet Altium Designer has enabled us to move very quickly. We have designed a number of boards with great success.

Pros

Altium Designer has set the standard for schematic capture, PCB layout and documentation generation. Coming from Mentor PADS has been such an eye opening experience. I would say the one thing I love about Altium Designer is the integrated component selection. It truly allows for a small team to move at a very rapid pace.

Cons

I wish it had Power and Signal integrity simulation that Mentor HyperLynx offers. It would be wonderful to get feedback on power plane design and decoupling in one tool.

Switched from

[PADS4](https://www.capterra.com/p/66174/PADS4/)[NX](https://www.capterra.com/p/232212/Siemens-NX/)

Needed more modern tool that was faster and easier to use.

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DM

Derese M.  
Electronics Design Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium 365 and my experience as an academician"

May 14, 2025

5.0

Till now I am very happy using it, so it's worth having it and using it in my academic and professional projects

Pros

What I like the most is its interactive cloud based design showing feature, which avoids opening Altium Designer every time I want to open my designs.

Cons

The subscription price is somehow unaffordable for some beginner designers like me

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PH

Peter H.  
EE Manager  
Semiconductors  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "EE Manager"

December 11, 2024

4.0

Pros

The integration design environment, 3D view, Altium 365, releaser, design review and version control.

Cons

The features are not intuitive enough for users to quickly adopt and use it.

Alternatives considered

[OrCAD X](https://www.capterra.com/p/10015795/OrCAD-X/)

Reason for choosing Altium Develop

The team has already used Altium when I join.

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AA

Abdulhahim A.  
Hardware Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium 365, A great cloud based collaboration tool"

August 2, 2024

5.0

Overall I am happy using Altium 365. As an electrical engineer it helped me a lot in my projects and it let me collaborate with professionals in the field.

Pros

I like Altium 365 as it is a great industry standard collaboration tool. As an electrical engineering professional I liked its user friendly and cloud based real time collaboration feature for designers like me.

Cons

I think some of its features are hard to understand and learn as a beginner, and it would be great if there are more online resources to learn the tool.

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YM

Yibeltal M.  
Electronics Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "The most powerful tool, Altium 365"

March 1, 2025

5.0

I am highly satisfied using it and I will use it in the future too

Pros

Its interactive features while being web based

Cons

I almost like everything about it except for the subscription price.

Switched from

[KiCad EDA](https://www.capterra.com/p/10006638/KiCad-EDA/)

Because Altium 365 is the best tool I've ever used

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AE

Abel E.  
Electrical and computer engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Incredible features of Altium 365"

July 22, 2024

4.0

Overall I am satisfied with the features that Altium 365 gives. It made my career more interesting and it helped me in many ways. I recommend anyone in the field of electronics design or other related fields to use this awesome tool.

Pros

From the features of Altium 365 what I liked the most is that, it helps designers to collaborate in real time with other designers and mentors during the project phase. It also allows supervisors to give real time feedbacks for the designs being done. This makes a design process quite easy and efficient.

Cons

What I liked the least about Altium 365 is that it takes time to fully understand the incredible features that Altium 365 provides. This is because there aren't many online and free resources to learn the tool.

Switched from

[KiCad EDA](https://www.capterra.com/p/10006638/KiCad-EDA/)

I made a switch from KiCad EDA to Altium 365 because of great professional features like cloud based real time collaboration that Altium 365 provides.

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AD

Abrham D.  
Electrical and computer Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Navigating Altium 365: Pros, Cons, and Key Features"

August 2, 2024

5.0

Overall I am glad that I used this tool so far. It has too many incredible features that helped me in my journey as an electrical engineer. I recommend anyone in the field of electronics or related professional to use Altium 365.

Pros

The platform integrates design, version control, BOM management, and cloud storage into a single environment, which streamlines workflows and increases productivity. Real-time collaboration allows team members to work together, comment on designs, and track changes, enhancing communication and minimizing errors. Additionally, its cloud-based setup provides convenient access from anywhere, making it a valuable tool for contemporary PCB design projects.

Cons

What I like least about Altium 365 is that its comprehensive features and integration can be daunting for newcomers, making it challenging to learn quickly. Furthermore, its dependence on a reliable internet connection for cloud access can lead to performance issues if the connection is unstable. Additionally, the subscription price might be viewed as relatively expensive compared to other PCB design software.

Switched from

[OrCAD X](https://www.capterra.com/p/10015795/OrCAD-X/)

I made the switch to Altium 365 for its seamless integration of design, version control, BOM management, and cloud storage. Its real-time collaboration features enhance teamwork and communication. Additionally, the platform's cloud-based access offers flexibility and convenience for remote work.

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BD

Beer D.  
Electrical Engineering Student  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium PCB Design "

October 23, 2024

5.0

Easy to use app to design, work on & review designs of PCBs

Pros

Amazing way to design PCBs, Everything is really clear on how it works. Inspecting the designs is also really well made.

Cons

I can't seem to find, (maybe it already exists), a standardized list of components with all information about them.

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SB

Sisay B.  
Hardware Engineer  
Computer Hardware  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "What a great tool, Altium 365"

March 6, 2025

5.0

I have a good experience of using Altium 365 and it helped me a lot on my projects.

Pros

It has a great future on cloud based interactive interface for our designs.

Cons

Its interactive future and allowing team members on a project to collaborate joining the workspace.

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JD

Jon D.  
Configuration Systems Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Design with intelligence"

December 10, 2024

5.0

Altium Designer is an intelligent and user-friendly PCB design platform that has enhanced my company's design capabilities tremendously. It was somewhat daunting to adopt it as a replacement for our outdated design software, but the payoff is ultimately worth the effort!

Pros

Schematic driven routing and seamless switching between wire routing and via placement using rules-based design.

Cons

The material library's inability to be customized to work with metals that fall outside of the standard library options.

Alternatives considered

[Mongoose](https://www.capterra.com/p/206757/Cadence/)[OrCAD X](https://www.capterra.com/p/10015795/OrCAD-X/)

Reason for choosing Altium Develop

Altium Designer was a more accessible and lower cost option

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MH

Mohamed H.  
Working Student  
Defense & Space  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "great experience for PCB designer"

December 19, 2024

5.0

my Experience with altium was very beneficial .

Pros

the Platform has a lot of function which make the Design easier.

Cons

The Software requires a lot of Know how as a beginner and some previous knowledge

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MS

Matiwos S.  
Electronics Engineeer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "A great tool for your projects, Altium 365"

July 9, 2024

5.0

As an electronics engineering student Altium 365 is a great tool for me. I could do projects in collaboration with my colleagues and then my professor could provide me feedbacks. And that makes my learning easy and effective.

Pros

What I like the most about Altium 365 is the way it allows users to collaborate in a given project and give real time feedback.

Cons

Some of its features may not be beginner friendly and I found it a little complex to learn at first. So what I liked the least about Altium 365 is that its complexity to learn the tool.

Switched from

[KiCad EDA](https://www.capterra.com/p/10006638/KiCad-EDA/)

Altium 365's feature of cloud based real time collaboration makes me to switch from KiCad EDA to Altium 365.

Review Source

Abel A.  
Electrical and Computer Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium 365 and its great features"

July 21, 2024

5.0

Overall I'm satisfied with with the features Altium 365 give and it really helped me in my projects and academic journey.

Pros

I like its feature of real time collaboration among team members in the project and supervisors and mentors could give a real time feedback.

Cons

Its subscription pricing is somehow unaffordable, so beginner designers and academicians might not be able to use this incredible tool.

Review Source

TH

Tam H.  
Research Engineer  
Internet  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Altium Designer for Engineer 2024"

December 18, 2024

4.0

I'm happy with what Altium Designer offering right now.

Pros

Well integrated environment, very convenient to switch between schematic and layout, part search is very useful.

Cons

location of buttons, panels, etc, keep changing for every update version. could you just update the functionality and keep the user interface the same for all versions.

Review Source

AM

Amanuel M.  
Mechanical team leader  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Features of Altium 365"

August 3, 2024

5.0

I'm grateful using Altium 365. It gas been about more than a year since I started using it and it helped me a lot.

Pros

I like Altium 365 as it creates Bill of materials automatically and it support various foramats for import and export of files. Also its cloud based collaboration is great feature.

Cons

The features are somehow hard to learn as a beginner and it would be great if there are more online resources.

Review Source

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